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Quote by Herman Melville
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable

The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head – Herman Melville

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A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. – Nikita Khrushchev

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The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. – Morris K. Udall

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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They dont know how – Elie Wiesel

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